Inflammation-Controlled Anti-Inflammatory Hydrogels.

While autoregulative adaptation is a common feature of living tissues, only a few feedback-controlled adaptive biomaterials are available so far. This paper herein reports a new polymer hydrogel platform designed to release anti-inflammatory molecules in response to the inflammatory activation of human blood. In this system, anti-inflammatory peptide drugs, targeting either the complement cascade, a complement receptor, or cyclophilin A, are conjugated to the hydrogel by a peptide sequence that is cleaved by elastase released from activated granulocytes.

Training Public Sector Clinicians in Competency-Based Clinical Supervision: Methods, Curriculum, and Lessons Learned.

This article describes an initiative to train public sector clinicians in competency-based clinical supervision. It was delivered as an 18-session course taught online to clinicians employed in departments of behavioral health in nine Southern California counties. The curriculum was co-constructed by a team of clinical supervision scholars and leaders who then served as instructors.

An evolving integrative treatment program for military sexual trauma (MST) and one veteran's experience.

Military sexual trauma (MST) increases the risk for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and multiple other comorbidities, presenting substantial challenges for nurses and psychiatric and medical clinicians. A specialized VA Medical Center outpatient program is patterned after Herman's three-phased, empirically-supported, recovery treatments. We use a case example of a female veteran MST survivor to illustrate our treatment model.

Social and cognitive factors associated with preventative health care behaviors of culturally diverse adolescents.

Purpose: The aim of the present study was to examine whether culturally diverse adolescents' self-reported engagement in preventative health care behaviors is associated with the following social and cognitive variables: health self-efficacy, value placed on health, perceived barriers to health promotion, and perceptions regarding primary caregivers' and peers' engagement in preventative health care behaviors.

Procedure: A cross-sectional study involving 108 high school students in health education classes was conducted. The majority of these participants (59.

Assessments for measuring patient-centered cultural sensitivity in community-based primary care clinics.

Objective: To develop and test the reliability of three race/ethnicity-specific forms of the pilot Tucker-Culturally Sensitive Health Care Inventory (T-CUSHCI) for use by patients at community-based primary care centers to evaluate the level of patient-centered cultural sensitivity perceived in the health care that they experience.

Methods: This research involved two studies using independent samples of primary care patients. In study 1, mostly low-income African-American, Hispanic and non-Hispanic white American patients (N=221) rated the importance of specific provider and office staff behaviors and attitudes, and center policies and physical environment characteristics that were earlier identified in previous focus groups as characteristics of patient-centered culturally sensitive healthcare.